By Jeff Bryant
In 2021, California launched a $4.1 billion grant program to spur a two-year expansion of community school implementations across the state. The grants of up to $500,000 per school annually are used to help sustain or expand existing community school initiatives.
The same year, Maryland enacted its Blueprint for Maryland’s Future that included, among other measures, implementations of the community school strategy in schools across the state that have the highest concentrations of low-income students. In New York City, more than one in every four public schools is a community school.
The early results of efforts to measure the impact of community school initiatives have been impressive so far.
You can read the story by Jeff Bryant in the Progressive Magazine here.